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Procedurally-generated infinite Chinese landscape paintings (2017)(shan-shui-inf.lingdong.works)
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Deepseek R1 got the right answer after a whopping ~10 minutes of thinking. I'm impressed and feel kind of dirty, I suspect my electricity use from this could have been put to better use baking a frozen pizza.
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I don't think I disagree, so this is perhaps a devil's advocate argument--to the extent a product is meant for somewhat general use, by integrating more perspectives during development, we might uncover blind spots and innovate in
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I find it perplexing that Apple seemingly refuses at the OS level to support DisplayPort MST (multi-stream transport), which is such a common, standard, widely adopted protocol. The biggest impact is that non-Thunderbolt, non-DisplayLink do
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Would you mind sharing those people/firms?
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I feel like this could be a nice high school physics test question. Realistically, I don't think HV lines have much energy loss, owing to the use of high voltage in the first place as a means of minimizing loss. Then there are consider
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You're absolutely right -- though, while Mandarin’s SVO structure does align with English in basic sentences, what’s interesting is how flexible word order and grammar in general can become in practice, thanks to its reliance on cont
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Is there a reliable handwriting OCR benchmark out there (updated, not a blog post)? Despite the gains claimed for printed text, I found (anecdotally) that trying to use Mistral OCR on my messy cursive handwriting to be much less accurate th
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The colors understanding is even more remarkable given that they are colorblind in the sense that they do not have different color cones, and likely rely on a very imperfect process of chromatic aberration that they can somehow translate ba
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Thank you! I went searching for more information after my post and was shocked to see the recent news, it made my day to see that and to see that Prof. Mullaney is in contact with the finder.
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Explanation and Replica of the MingKwai Chinese Typewriter [video](youtube.com)
1 points by z2 2y ago|1 comments
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Please consider using English auto-translated subtitles on the video.
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I really wish this other typewriter got a chance to enter mass production--it basically contained an ahead-of-its-time input method akin to modern Chinese/Kanji/Hanja on computers, rather than require hunting through 1000+ tiny ch
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I didn't realize how deep an impact this chair had on me until I saw these chairs at my daughter's daycare. When I had to move one, I instinctively avoided the metal, including the two evil metal buttons on the seat back. I rememb
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Quick note on the horizontal scrolling marquee, the text for Chinese (中国人) means Chinese person, not the language, which for Chinese would be 中文. Might want to check the other ones too!
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Why yes, that's decidedly un-American behavior! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-dont-other-c...
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And also where the industry that's supposed to be regulated is reverse-dominating the regulatory agencies. Maybe par for the course in other industries too, but they have powerful lobbying groups like American Hospital Association.
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Historically, unchecked corporate power tends to mirror the flaws of the systems that enable it. For example, the Gilded Age robber barons exploited weak regulations, while tech giants thrive on data privacy gray areas. Maybe the problem is
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I for one would love to see model weights published in hardcover book form.
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Sounds about right, 1 million neurons and potentially 1 billion synapses. Back in school I used to think computers and machines were so advanced and complex compared to boring old biology. It was such a silly misconception to be so many ord
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Perhaps Switzerland is too neutral as well.
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The competitors at the consumer-facing super app level (with mini programs of varying awkwardness) include Meituan, XiaoHongShu, and to an extent, Toutiao, JD.com, and Baidu. But you don't need those gardens as a publisher if you'
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If crypto has this much staying power despite the crazy hype, any AI winter would appear to be a long ways off!
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Two if not three of these examples are very much related to civil wars or civil-war-like dynamics. If anything, yes, I agree that the world usually isn't so simple to unconditionally take any single side.
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Water is a solvent, and unless pressurized, liquid water is limited to a maximum temperature of 100C. Many foods cook differently (one may even say better) at higher temperatures, or if parts don't get dissolved into the water. Not def
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The most mainstream phenol free thermal paper out there is one made from a branded chemical "pergafast" which is supposedly based off of urea. This is increasingly the type used by big brand stores where the paper is advertised as
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There are some strange-looking ones too (圖-図、圓-円), but agree that overall it was lighter touch. I think all simplification projects have an inherent awkwardness in taking handwriting shorthand or cursive and trying to reformalize it back to
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Much of the simplification adopted shorthand already in common use, which is why Japanese shinjitai simplification independently arrived at many similar characters and patterns. The second simplification round was an abysmal newspeak-esque
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Exactly, and without the likes of the Internet Archive, even the open web isn't safe. I think like most history preservation efforts today, you have to be really intentional about it given the sheer amount of information and noise. Thi
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My company had us take the Ellume test, which was also over engineered as it was just a glorified one time use Bluetooth color sensor wrapped over a standard strip. I did start taking them apart and harvested several years' supply of C

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